“I simply can’t express gratitude to this kind-hearted couple."

In a heartwarming gesture, a Muslim couple from the Himachal Pradesh has offered to adopt the younger daughter of Naib Subedar Paramjit Singh, who was killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Poonch sector on 1 May.

According to reports, Yunus Khan, an IAS officer and his wife Anjum Ara, an IPS officer, approached the martyr's family and expressed their desire to look after their 12-year-old daughter, Khushdeep Kaur.

"Khushdeep will continue to stay with her family. We will be paying for all her expenses and meeting her from time to time to know about her problems and solve them. If she wants to become an IAS or IPS officer or choose some other career, we are there to help," the Times of India quoted Ara, Superintendent of Police of Solan district, as saying.

Supporting his wife in the remarkable gesture, Khan, who is Deputy Commissioner, Kullu, said that as responsible citizens of the country, they were only performing their duty by ensuring a good education for the child.

"We will be there for her throughout her life to help her in making decisions," Khan also said.

The Indian Army, in a press release on Monday, said that the Pakistani Army had killed two Indian soldiers on the LoC and mutilated their bodies. The statement said that the two soldiers were on patrol along the LoC.